Portable pumping-engine



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No. 395,933. Patented Jan; 8, 1889.

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PORTABLE PUMPING ENGINE.

No. 395,933. Patented Jan. 8, 1.889.

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UNITED STATES FFICEO PATENT PORTABLE PUMPING-ENGINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,933, dated January 8, 1889.

Application filed March 14, 1887. Serial No. 230,833%. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM O. WEBBER, of Lawrence, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Portable Pumping-Engines, of which'the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in explaining its nature.

This improvement relates to the frame of the engine, the connection of the same with the wheels, and the connection of the shell of the pump with theiframe and the shaft of the pump with the shaft of the engine.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of the engine to which these improvements are applied. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail of the saddle-piece llby which the frame of the engine is attached to the boiler. Fig. 4 is a detail of the spr in g-rocker by which the frame is connected with the front wheels. Fig. 5 is an enlarged view, in section, illustrating a portion of the frame of the engine and the connections between the crank and pumpshaft. Fig. (5 is a View in perspective of a portion of the neck or frame represented in Fig. 5.

A is the boiler. To the front of the lire-box of said boiler is bolted a strong iron saddle, I which has two forwai-dlyprojecting lugs, b, for receiving the channel-bars O, which make the body of the frame to support the engine and pump. These two channel-bars 0 form what is substantially equivalent in duty to the perch of an ordinary wagon. They rest in the lugs I), attached to the boiler and on the rocker D, thus making the front part of the carriage quite narrow and giving the front wheels an opportunity to turn to a verylarge angle, so that the whole engine can be reversed in a comparatively small space. The rocker D is shaped transversely as shown in Fig. 2. A cupshaped projection, E, extends downward from its center andis connected with the body of the rocker by two webs, (7, thus giving a very strong form to this rocker, which carries a large part of the weight of the engine and pump. An upwardly-projecting cup, E, provided with two downwardly-projeeting ears, E is fastened by a bolt, f, to the saddle L, and inside ofthis cup E is the spring 8, which is between the lowerside of the rocker D and the bottom of the cup E. This spring carries the load that is thrust upon the front axle. In order to prevent the jumping of this load sufficiently to disconnect the cupsE E,

an eyebolt, F, with a nut at its top, passes through the center of the sprin e, and the nut at the top of this eycbolt is screwed down upon a rubber 'asher, F, compressing it, so that in case the engine dances on its spring the parts of the spring-casc shall not be disconnected. the center of the saddle L, and the transverse bolt f passes through the ears E of the cup E through the saddle L, and thus forms a horizontal hinge 0f the engine and its carriage over the center of the front axle, the transom-bolt below formin the vertical hinge of said carriage.

The body of the axle of the fore carriage is square and set with its diagonals vertically and horizontally. I

The housing of the engine (represented at I) is described in another application, together with the bearing for the end of the engineshaft.

A cylindrical housing, .T, properlybolted to the engine-housing I and to the channel-bars C, extends forward to the end of the channelbars, and there is terminated by the cap M, firmly fastened to the housing .I. In this cap is a made a circular slot, 71 The neck g of the pump G terminates in a face-plate, g, from the center of which is projected a trunnion, 0, which is perforated for the shaft of the centrifugal pump; Bolts 71., with large heads each, [it the slot 72, pass from the said slot 71 through the face-plate, and are fastened by nuts.

In case the position of the suction or delivery ends of the pump are .not suitably arranged, by loosening these nuts on the bolts 71. the whole pump can be rotated around its axis and the suction and delivery orifices placed in any desired position.

The coupling between the shaft of the en- This eyebolt F passes down into gine and the shaft of the pump is inside of I00 the housing .I, and consists of an ordinary flanged hub, K splined onto the engine-shaft,

and of a flanged hnh, K, and elmnpjing-nnt 'l(,\\'hi(-h are seren'ed onto the pnnlp-slmit't, and thus nn'lyhe :lnstened \ery firmly together. The flanges of these two llllllH are holted together h ordinary bolts and nuts.

It will he observed that the Frame of the engine is mounted upon two pairs of wheels, 1

tion, with thehoiler A, of the saddle .13, secured and that the steam-generzitor is plneed over the axle ot the rear Wheels, and thzttthe engine isplneed upon the frame in zu'lvtinee thereof hetween the t\\'onxles ot' the engine, and that the shaft and [frame are extended forward, 3

so as to provide it snpymrt lor thepnlnp-lrn'nie :tnd pnnip in t'ront of the axle ot the l'ront pair of Wheels. This eonstrnetion is,]'deen1, essential for :t pump of this ehnrm-ter in order that it: may hring' the pump into :1 position to he readilynttnehed tothe snetion-pipe zind to the delivery-pipe,heez'inse ithrin g's the pnn1p-ensing into :1 nineh more nt'eessihleposition, nnd one whieh elnthles it to he moved or rotated upon its support or i l'itlllt to hringr its snetion-inlet and (llHt'llillg'P-(Hthlli lllitlilll) desired rehttion to the snetion-pipe mid discharge-pipe, and this relation and arrange ment of the parts to each other I consider to he of very n'iziterinl conseqnenee,

Having thus tnlly deserihed my invention, I claim and desire to seenre hy Letters Patent of the 'l inited States- 1. In it portable stemn-engine, the (Olllbilltthereto and provided with the forwardly-pr0- jeeting lugs I), the ehannellmrs C, secured to the said lugs, and the spring-roelmr D at the fore carriage, to which the forward ends of the said ehztnnel-hz'irs are attnehml, snhstnnl tiztlly 2W set forth.

2. In. a] )ort:1l)lestemn-ene'ine the emnhination, with the saddle L, of the roeker l), 115W ingenp-slmtped honsinghl, thehonsingE',having the flange or portion E the spring 6, the eyeholt- I the (winter-s )rinp; 1*", find the transverse holtf, snlnstfirntinll x as set; forth.

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